Pignatelli

Luciana (1935). Italian designer known in the 1960s for her ready-to-wear collection branded Princess Luciana, characterized by miniskirts and fanciful prints. She had a showroom in Piazza dell’Orologio in Rome and she sold to American department stores. She produced a Westernised version of the kaftan in flannel. Life magazine did a story on her, her sister-in-law Consuela Crespi, and her sons Fabrizio and Diego Pignatelli. She decided to abandon her business in 1967-68 to work with the cosmetics company Eve of Rome, which was later sold to the Gilette Corporation. She now lives in London and designs jewelry for Lotus, for a Southeast Asian market that includes Bangkok, Singapore, Malaysia, and New Delhi.
&Quad;She is the author of The Beautiful People’s Beauty Book, full of beauty tips from somebody who created and represented beauty in the 1960s and 1970s.